"Be careful! Come back! ”

On the hills on the east bank of Hebei River, Li Chenghuan reined in the reins of his horse and shouted at his two subordinates dozens of paces away.

"Bang! Bang bang bang! ”

Unfortunately, it was too late, and two of his men had already fallen in response to the peculiar dull sound of the Short Torch; The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and four or five cavalrymen of the Fuliao Army rushed out of the woods and looked at Li Chenghuan defiantly.

"Don't move! Don't move! Lee Seung-hwan held one hand at a time, stopping the remaining subordinates from wanting to rush forward, "Take the bow!" Get on the arrow! ”

Seeing that they were in full array, the cavalry stopped coming forward, and after a fifty or sixty paces of confronting each other for a stick of incense, they led two unmanned horses and slowly retreated into the woods.

Li Chenghuan cautiously stepped forward and commanded his men to clean up the corpses, while he himself looked vigilantly into the gloomy woods, and did not dare to leave his bow and arrows - he knew too well how cunning these cavalry of the Fuliao army were, and it was their usual style to lure and ambush.

Looking at the two bloody corpses, Li Chenghuan's face turned pale-since he was ordered to patrol three days ago, four of his ten-man team had already died, and if it continued like this, it wouldn't be long before he would become a bachelor!

After the fall of the Yoo family, Lee Seung-hwan escaped with his life and came to Jeju City; He has been mixed in the army all his life, and he will not make a living except as a soldier, so as soon as he entered the city, he joined the garrison camp led by Yoon Qin, the capital of Jeju; Coincidentally, at that time, the garrison was also recruiting people in order to deal with the threat of the Fuliao army, so he put on the uniform again and became a member of the garrison; Because of Li Chenghuan's superb riding skills and good martial arts, he was soon discovered by the battalion commander and became a commander.

Three days ago, the army that Jeju had been waiting for for half a year finally appeared; Just like Ling Ming's plan, the vanguard of 3,000 men was transported directly from Jemulpo to Jeju City, including 800 cavalry - but the organizational ability of the Joseon royal court was really enough, and it was nearly a month later than planned.

Although it was a month late, and the sea was constantly harassed and attacked by the naval divisions of the Fuliao army, it finally came, which greatly boosted the morale of all the soldiers and civilians in Jeju City from the palace to Yin - the garrison camp and the pacification camp that had been huddled behind the high city wall finally went out of the city to patrol the city, and opened a warning curtain for the landing Wang Ting's army within a radius of thirty or forty miles.

As soon as they left the city, the two battalion leaders were hit with a blow to the head -- the hills and ravines on both sides of the Hebei River seemed to be full of cavalry of the Fuliao Army, and the patrol teams in any direction were attacked, and in just three days, the casualties of the two battalion leaders reached nearly 200 people, accounting for 30% of the total strength!

The tactics of the cavalry of the Fuliao army were extremely flexible, and the most common was ambush - several patrol teams were surrounded by the superior cavalry of the Fuliao army on the rather unfavorable terrain, and the whole army was annihilated.

Then there's the trick of baiting the enemy. Four of Lee's men all died under this tactic - the Fuliao army first sent a cavalry to flee as if he was exhausted, and when the Koreans happily caught up, the cavalry in ambush would suddenly appear to intercept them.

Such a tactic was quite a blow to the morale of the opponent, and as Lee Seung-hwan and his men walked back with the two corpses on their backs, they were silent and dejected like frosted eggplants.

Unlike his battered subordinates, Lee Seung-hwan's silence was not because of the sacrifice of his subordinates, but because he was thinking about a deeper issue.

After patrolling the post for three days, Li Chenghuan found that there were not many cavalry of the Fuliao army, and there were about 300 people in the sky, and they were usually attacked in groups of three or five, so it would give people a false impression that they were all over the mountains.

But what he couldn't figure out was that all his actions seemed to be under the nose of the Fuliao army—several ambushes took place on the way out of the city or back to the city in groups of Korean cavalry, and the number of them exceeded fifty; In other words, as soon as the Korean cavalry was assembled, the Fuliao army would gather the scattered men and horses in a short period of time and set up an ambush on their own path.

This made Li Chenghuan simply unbelievable - the means of communication in this era were simply not enough for an army to have such a quick reaction ability, but the Fu Liao army did it, do they really have clairvoyance and ears?

Thinking of this, Li Chenghuan couldn't help but turn his body and look behind him at the few small black dots floating quietly above the blue sky and white clouds - he had noticed these black dots for a long time, but he didn't know what they were, and now his intuition told him that the lightning-fast reaction speed of the Fuliao Army was probably related to these small black dots!

Looking back, Li Chenghuan's brows furrowed even tighter - when he was still commanding the Liu family cavalry to confront the Fuliao army, he was surprised by the opponent's sharp firearms and tricks, and now the Fuliao army not only has real cavalry, but also reacts so quickly that he can't help but worry about the upcoming big battle.

"Chief Li, are you back?"

Li Chenghuan was thinking about it, when he heard someone shouting in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was the centurion of the hundred-man team who was responsible for guarding the Hebeichuan ferry, and he was looking at him with a smile on his face.

Li Chenghuan hurriedly kicked the horse's belly, ran to the centurion and turned over and dismounted, and said, "Lord Baizong, I have finished the patrol and come to pay the order." ”

The centurion glanced at the two corpses on the horse's buttocks, his smile froze, and he sighed and said, "Alas! Lost two more? …… These Mingkou! ”

After finishing speaking, he reached out and patted Li Chenghuan's shoulder comfortingly, and laughed again, "Don't be too sad Li Shichang, tell you a good news, from tomorrow, we won't have to patrol this ghost place anymore...... The conquest army is about to take over! ”

When Lee Seung-hwan heard the news, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; The six brothers behind him couldn't help but let out a burst of cheers - the death of their four companions had made them deeply afraid of the Fuliao army, and now that they could finally return to the city, how could they not be overjoyed.

After taking the war horse and getting on the ferry, Li Chenghuan looked at the left bank of the lower reaches of Hebei River from a distance, where the people were buzzing, and the camp of the royal army was being built; A little farther away, the wharf at the mouth of the river was piled up like a hill, and the sea outside the wharf was empty, and the sails that had been like clouds a few days ago had disappeared.

The landing and transfer of 3,000 people and a large amount of grain was completed in three days, and Li Chenghuan couldn't help but have a little more praise and expectation for this conquest army.

With the general level of the North Korean army in this era, such an operation from ship to shore would take at least seven or eight days, and if it encounters a general with less ability, it will be ten days and half a month!

The combat strength of an army can be reflected in these details, and it seems that the strength of this conquest army is not bad!

Li Chenghuan, who remounted after going ashore, had his original worries dissipated, and he felt that in the face of this conquest army, the Fuliao army would undoubtedly be defeated - no matter how powerful the other party was, after all, there were only so many people, and they could still climb to the sky?

The horse under the crotch also seemed to feel the joy of the owner, and spread its hooves and galloped towards Jeju City, but it didn't go far before it was stopped by Lee Seung-hwan.

Li Chenghuan on horseback, I don't know what he saw, looking ahead with a blue face! (To be continued.) )